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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should die, think only this of me
Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven.
Variant Title(s): The Soldier
Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War


1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 14, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity this busy monster, manunkind
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A FARM PICTURE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn
Last Line: And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


A HAPPY LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: O what a life is this I lead
Last Line: With such a life as this to lead?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


A POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was angry with my friend
Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees
Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A SONG OF THE SEASON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a moth ball
Last Line: But out!
Subject(s): Animals;environment;insects;moths; Environmental Protection;ecology;conservation;bugs


A SPARROW-HAWK IN THE SUBURBS, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time of year there is a turn in the road where
Last Line: Last frosts of our / back gardens
Subject(s): Environment; Hawks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White dawn. Stillness. When the rippling began
Subject(s): Environment; Music & Musicians; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A VISION, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we will have the wisdom to survive
Last Line: Its hardship is its posibility
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A WOODCHUCK LESSON, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To reach the university, / you park your car on rapist hill
Last Line: Who huddle near the fence, near the loading ramp.
Subject(s): Environment; Teaching & Teachers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A.M., by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ... And here the dark infinitive to feel
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


AD ASTRA: 32, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tho' factory smoke and film of whirring loom
Last Line: And nature's harness'd powers his will subserve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Environment; Pollution; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


AD ASTRA: 33, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then cities shall arise, both sweet and fair
Last Line: Health the handmaid of peace and child of love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Cities; Environment; Health; Urban Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


ADVICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, you two eyes, that have all night been sleeping
Last Line: Come into the meadows, where the lambs are leaping.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city
Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S


AFTER IKKYU: 25, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talked to the god of hosts about the native american
Last Line: Half-human bears still dance in imperfect circles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Environment; Native Americans; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AIR, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the open window, a confusion
Last Line: Is deeply inhaling, exhaling its doppelgänger breath.
Subject(s): Air; Environment; Gasoline; Pollution; Sickness; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Illness


ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In winter I remember
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AMPHION, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father left a park to me
Last Line: A little garden blossom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


AN ADDRESS TO WEYERHAEUSER, THE TREE-GROWING COMPANY, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After miles of stumps and slash and the once-buried endeavors
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


ANCESTOR OF THE HUNTING HEART; AFTER BREUGEL, by JOHN HAINES            Poet Analysis            
First Line: There is a distance in the heart
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I visited with the porpoises
Last Line: That harvest the tuna like wheat
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


BARE ALMOND TREES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips


BEDROCK, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snowmelt pond -- warm granite
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


BEGGAR'S LUCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Where did you sleep in the country, lad?
Last Line: And drove me away with stones.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Environment; Fields; Homeless; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


BINSEY POPLARS (FELLED 1879), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled
Last Line: Sweet especial rural scene.
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Environment; Holidays; Nature; New Year; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


BIRCHES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I see birches bend to left and right
Last Line: One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Children; Environment; Trees; Winter; Youth; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


BLACK NIKES, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We need quarters like king tut needed a boat. A slave could row him to heaven from his crypt in
Subject(s): Egypt; Environment; Shoes; Homecoming; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


BLESSING, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blessed / are the injured animals
Last Line: When no one is left to speak.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


BRUEGHEL'S SNOW, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the snow
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


BUFFALO DUSK, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The buffaloes are gone
Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock
Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


BY RAIL THROUGH THE EARTHLY PARADISE, PERHAPS BEDFORDSHIRE, by DENISE LEVERTOV            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fishermen among the fireweed
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When we reach the field
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE EVE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down with the rosemary and bayes
Last Line: New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Variant Title(s): Candlemas Eve
Subject(s): Candlemas; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


CONSERVATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While we're conserving coal and trees
Last Line: And prudently conserve -- themselves.
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers preach to us if we will hear
Last Line: To nourish one small seed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flowers; Lilies; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


COWSLIPS AND LARKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear it said yon land is poor
Last Line: Are many a sunny mile from here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


DAY BEGINS AT GOVERNOR'S SQUARE MALL, by LEON STOKESBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, newness is all. Or almost all. And like
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


DRAW, AND DRINKE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Milk still your fountains, and your springs, for why?
Last Line: The more th'are drawn, the lesse they wil grow dry.
Subject(s): Environment; Fountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


EROSION, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are slowly / underminded. Grain
Subject(s): Environment; Change; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


FETCHING COWS, by NORMAN MACCAIG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black one, last as usual, swings her head
Subject(s): Cows; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


FIELD AND FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you look down from the airplane you see lines
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


FIFTY FAGGOTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots
Last Line: Foresee or more control than robin and wren.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; First World War


FIVE A.M. IN THE PINEWOODS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd seen / their hoofprints in the deep
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


FOR A COMING EXTINCTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray whale / now that we are sending you to the end
Last Line: That it is we who are important
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Death; Environment; Extinct Animals; Whales; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


FOR INSTANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often, it's nowhere special: maybe
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rising hills, the slopes
Subject(s): Children; Environment; Mothers; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


FRONT LINES, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The edge of the cancer
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


GEO-BESTIARY: 4, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some eco-ninny released
Last Line: A clump, among others, of red-spotted snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


GEO-BESTIARY: 6, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O blm, blm, and nfs
Last Line: Now mostly scar tissue?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


GIFTS OF RAIN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloudburst and steady downpour now for days
Subject(s): Environment; Rain; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god
Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings.
Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology


GRASSHOPPERS, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grasshoppers go in many a thrumming spring
Last Line: He springs, that bends until they touch the ground.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS, by GARY SNYDER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork
Last Line: Earth / loves to love
Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


HARES AT PLAY, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still
Last Line: Sturts quick as fear, and seeks its hidden lair.
Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Fields; Rabbits; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hares


HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never before have I so resembled british petroleum
Last Line: Or notional, now that oceans are wheezing to a stop?
Subject(s): Oil & Gas Companies; Environment; Poetry & Poets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indian


HISTORY AS HORSE LIGHT, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there
Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
Variant Title(s): April In England
Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips


HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a boy here
Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is, all around us
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field?
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


I'M GLAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm glad the sky is painted blue
Last Line: All sandwiched in between
Subject(s): Air;earth;environment;nature;sky; World;environmental Protection;ecology;conservation


IF THE OWL CALLS AGAIN, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: At dusk / from the island
Last Line: Cold world awakens.
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Environment; Owls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


IMAGINARY DRAWINGS OF THE SONG ANIMALS, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Treefrog winks without springing
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


IN A BIRD SANCTUARY, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because they could not give it too much ground
Last Line: What's all about
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


IN A WOOD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale beech and pine so blue [or, pine-tree blue]
Last Line: Life-loyalties.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row
Last Line: In flanders fields.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 2, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old yew, which graspest at the stones
Last Line: And grow incorporate into thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The Dead Friend;in Memoriam;in Memoriam (1);in Memoriam: 2
Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Trees; Yew Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bereavement


IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


IN SUMMER (2), by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night lies down / in the field when the moon
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


IN THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE MEW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, when I look at lovely things which pass
Last Line: Over the fields. They come in spring.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


IN THE FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This earth written over with words
Last Line: "one tree, one leaf,
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


INVERSNAID, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown
Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


ISLE OF MULL, SCOTLAND, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because by now we know everything is no green everywhere
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


JONES'S SELECTION, by G. H. GIBSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You hear a lot of new-chum talk
Last Line: The land don't get on yous.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark; Gibson, George Herbert
Subject(s): Death; Environment; Punishment; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


LAMARCK ELABORATED, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The greeks were wrong who said our eyes have rays
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


LITTLE COSMIC DUST POEM, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the debris of dying stars
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


LOST ACRES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These acres, always again lost
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


MAPLE AND SUMACH, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maple and sumach down this autumn ride
Last Line: Speak in me now for all who are to die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Autumn; Environment; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines
Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold'
Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines & Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


MOTHS, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight the air smells of cut grass
Last Line: And my child's shadow longer than my own
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


MOWING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was never a sound beside the wood but one
Last Line: My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mowing & Mowers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers


MY MEADOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont
Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters


MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 14, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The groves are down
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


NO-MAN'S WOOD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Shall I have jealous thoughts to nurse
Last Line: Clean through the heart of no-man's wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


ON A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE ROAD (TO HEAR US TALK), by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
Last Line: And steer it a direction straight through space.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Even pollute the people under his own roof
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


PERSEPHONE, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see as through a skylight in my brain
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


PERVERSITY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once it was sweet when darkness veiled the hills
Last Line: Missing life's comforts, we would just be bored.
Subject(s): Air; Environment; Night; Pollution; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bedtime


PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things
Last Line: Praise him.
Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology


PINE-TREES AND THE SKY: EVENING, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky
Last Line: Being glad of you, o pine-trees and the sky!
Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


PIPEFISH, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green / and purple weeds
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


PLANTING TREES, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mating of trees
Last Line: And the sound of the wind in them
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


PLOUGHING THE ROUGHLANDS, by HELEN DUNMORE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not the four-wheeled drive crawler
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gratitude to mother earth, sailing through night and day
Subject(s): Environment; Holidays; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


QUESTION IN A FIELD, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple
Last Line: Or the horrible beautiful kind?
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


SAND-QUARRY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the wined marshlands
Subject(s): Quarries; Fathers & Daughters; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SILENT SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, the great sky!
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 97, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurt no living thing
Last Line: Nor harmless worms that creep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Environment; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in the jurassic about 150 million years ago
Subject(s): Buddhism; Pollution; Environment; Bears; United States; Buddha; Buddhists; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; America


SOIL, by GEORGE SZIRTES    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: What colour would you call that now? That brown
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SOME TREES, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are amazing: each
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SONG FOR THE DEER AND MYSELF TO RETURN ON, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning when I looked out the roof window
Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a tree
Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips


SOUTH WIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where have you been, south wind, this may-day morning
Last Line: When you stole to me shyly with scent of hawthorn.
Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Wind; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


STOVEWOOD, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two thousand years of fog and sucking minerals
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


THE ALMOND TREES, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing here / this early
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE ANDEAN FLUTE, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He dances to that music in the wood
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE BLACK WALNUT TREE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother and I debate: / we could sell
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE BLACKBIRD, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning in the month of june
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE BREATHING, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An absolute / patience
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE BRIGHT FIELD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen the sun break through
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE CABBAGE FIELD, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Both taine and the inland english child
Last Line: Anything but the sea?
Subject(s): Cabbage; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her gnarled sleep it
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE CHERRY TREES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cherry trees bend over and are
Last Line: This early may morn when there is none to wed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Trees; War; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put out the lights now!
Last Line: If it lives or dies now
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Environment; Nativity, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE COMBE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The combe was ever dark, ancient and dark
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR, by MARY WRIGHT PLUMMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Another world we have, we that have made
Last Line: Of thy first gift -- lord, art thou not afraid?
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Environment; Wellesley College; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE DELIGHT SONG OF TSOAI-TALEE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a feather on the bright sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who really respects the earthworm
Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE ELM, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled
Last Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE END, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not every man [or, everyone] knows what he shall sing at the end
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE FALLEN ELM, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old elm that murmured in our chimney top
Last Line: & freedoms birthright from the weak devours
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Freedom; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Liberty


THE FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught a tremendous fish
Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sports; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers; Ocean


THE FISH ARE ALL SICK, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fish are all sick, the great whales dead
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead
Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket
Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs


THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I just heard a loon call on a t.V. Ad
Last Line: Within their breasts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Solitude; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness


THE LAST ONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well they'd made up their minds to be everywhere because why not
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE LICORICE FIELDS AT PONTEFRACT, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the licorice fields at pontefract
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Love; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The floorboards creak
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians


THE NEW HIGHWAY, by EVA SMITH TURNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A smooth, broad highway girds our town
Last Line: Cast cold, dark shadows on my heart.
Subject(s): Environment; Roads; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Paths; Trails


THE OLD ELM TREE BY THE RIVER, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrugging in the flight of its leaves
Last Line: A mighty blessing we cannot bear for long
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE OLD OAK TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I sit beneath your leaves, old oak
Last Line: The stars turn over leaves of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE ORIGINS OF CORN, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the female corn. / this is the male
Last Line: Will find it green and alive.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Love; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE POPLAR FIELD, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade
Last Line: Have a being less durable even than he.
Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Fields; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE PURSE-SEINE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight ...
Last Line: That cultures decay, and life's end is death
Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers


THE REASSURER, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A people in the throes of national prosperity, who
Last Line: Has been wakened in the night by a dream of the calamity of peace
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE SCARECROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)                        Poet's Biography
First Line: He strides across the grassy corn
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Scarecrows; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


THE SKYLARK, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside
Last Line: Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn.
Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Environment; Fields; Larks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks


THE STONES, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One night in my room
Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables.
Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks


THE SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry & Poets; Walking; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE TABLES TURNED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks
Last Line: That watches and receives.
Subject(s): Country Life; Environment; Nature; Religion; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Theology


THE THORN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a thorn; it looks so old
Last Line: "oh woe is me! Oh misery!'"
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE TREE, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood still and was a tree amid the wood
Last Line: That was rank folly to my head before.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE TREES, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are coming into leaf
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians;


THE UNGRATEFUL GARDEN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midas watched the golden crust
Last Line: "nature is evil,"" midas said."
Subject(s): Environment; Gold; Midas; Women; Women's Rights; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Feminism


THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They shut the road through the woods
Last Line: But there is no road through the woods.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE WELLFLEET WHALE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have your language too
Subject(s): Environment; Whales; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter these enchanted woods
Last Line: You who dare.
Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


THE WORDS, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind, bird, and tree
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE WORLD, by JAN HELLER LEVI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Environment; Children; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Childhood


THIS MOMENT, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A neighbourhood / at dusk
Last Line: Apples sweeten in the dark
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature; Estrangement; Outcasts; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, riding in a car, in wisconsin
Last Line: And the ditches along the road half full of a private snow
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore


TIMESWEEP, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born in the morning of the world
Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O why do you walk through the fields in gloves
Last Line: Missing so much and so much?
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Obesity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie
Last Line: I guess an' fear.
Variant Title(s): To A Field-mouse
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mice; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


TO IRON-FOUNDERS AND OTHERS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you destroy a blade of grass
Last Line: Chisels men's hands to magnify.
Subject(s): Environment; Industrial Revolution; Labor & Laborers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers


TO THE DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep
Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face.
Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I walked restless and despondent through the gloomy city
Last Line: Little child.
Subject(s): Capitalism; Democracy; Depressions, Economic; Environment; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Smoke; Recessions; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SUNDAY MORNING NEAR A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunday, a still autumn morning, and all the roads on the outskirts
Last Line: Overlie you much longer.
Subject(s): Environment; Factories; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer
Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree
Last Line: But only god can make a tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War


TREES BE COMPANY, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When zummer's burnen het's a-shed
Last Line: The trees would still be company.
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Pleasure; Seasons; Solitude; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness


UNDER THE OAK, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, if you were sensible
Last Line: What place have you in my histories?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


UPPER LAMBOURNE, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the ash tree climbs the ivy
Subject(s): England; Environment; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


VERSES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF DRUMLANRIG WOODS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As on the banks o' wandering nith
Last Line: "that reptile wears a ducal crown."
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


VIOLET AND OAK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Down through the trees is my green walk
Last Line: A little violet in the grass.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Flowers; Trees; Violets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


VIRGIN IN A TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How this tart fable instructs
Last Line: Till irony's bough break
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WALNUT ST., OAK ST., SYCAMORE ST., ETC, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So this is what happened
Last Line: Where they had gone
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


WIND AND TREE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the way that the most of the wind
Subject(s): Environment; Love - Erotic; Love; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WINTER, by SHEILA WINGFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tree still bends over the lake
Subject(s): Environment; Love; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WINTER TREES, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WOODS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I part the out thrusting branches
Last Line: There is flight around me
Subject(s): Blessings; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WORDS FOR SOME ASH, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor parched man, we had to squeeze
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


YARDLEY OAK, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all
Last Line: Eventful, should supply her with a theme.
Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs
Last Line: The faithfulest -- hardiest -- last.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation